RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Interagency Agreement #23-299-16 with the City of El Cerrito for its Fire Department, a municipal corporation, in an amount not to exceed $231,426, to provide funding for first responder fire paramedic services within the City of El Cerrito and the Kensington Fire Protection District for the period from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This contract will result in contractual service expenditures of up to $231,426 over a 3-year period and will be funded 100% by CSA EM-1 (Measure H). (No rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
County Service Area EM-1 was established in 1989 to provide enhanced emergency medical services, including rapid paramedic-staffed ambulance response, to the residents of Contra Costa County. On May 14, 2013, the Board of Supervisors authorized the County’s Health Services Emergency Medical Services Division approval of CSA EM-1 fire agency funding, based on a population-based funding formula, to partially offset cost to fire agencies providing first responder Paramedic services in Zone B.
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